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APQC’s Resource Library is your source for timely and topical information to help you meet your most complex business process and knowledge management challenges. Explore our ever-growing collection of more than 8,600 research-based best practices, benchmarks and metrics, case studies, and other valuable APQC content.
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APQC's Seven Tenets of Process Management
To build strong processes across the enterprise, organizations must establish a firm foundation based on seven critical tenets. Using real life examples from APQC research,…
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Challenges Faced with Adopting a Process Framework
Although the benefits of process frameworks are numerous, they are not without their challenges. Most frameworks require some modifications to account for differences in…
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Every leader knows that culture determines the success or failure of an organization. At APQC’s 2022 Process and Knowledge Management Conference, José Castro, Head of…
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No matter how smart and capable your employees are, they will struggle to work together effectively if they operate in silos. Process management helps organizations dismantle…
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Creating a Continuous Improvement and Process Driven Culture
Creating a culture is a complex challenge. CMI's Shared Service Center focused on four key elements—organization, language, technology, and methods—to develop a continuous…
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Value Stream Mapping with the Vanguard Group
In The Vanguard Group’s old state, it was operating in business silos. It was a very inefficient process which led to multiple handoffs; a staggering 45 percent of work was…
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Simulation Modeling at the Port of Vancouver
Simulation modeling provides a risk-free, cost efficient mean of examining the operation of complex processes and test improvement ideas before they are implemented. During a…
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Cherwell Software needed a program to streamline manual and sometimes duplicative processes in place to convert a prospect to a customer. This overview describes Cherwell’s…
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Influencing Change through Process Visualization
In The Vanguard Group’s old state, it was operating in business silos. It was a very inefficient process which led to multiple handoffs; a staggering 45 percent of work was…
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Simulation for Process Improvement
Simulation modeling provides a risk-free, cost efficient mean of examining the operation of complex processes and test improvement ideas before they are implemented. During a…
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Designing a World Class Opportunity to Order Process
Cherwell Software needed a program to streamline manual and sometimes duplicative processes in place to convert a prospect to a customer. This overview describes Cherwell’s…
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PCF Case Studies: How Organizations Use the Process Classification Framework
Countless organizations have adopted APQC's Process Classification Framework (PCF)® for benchmarking, content management, and process improvement. Learn about their stories…